Breakfast Tools & Resources

Tools

The Breakfast Assessment Tool can be used to compile all key school site information needed for planning purposes in alternative breakfast. This data collection, combined with fiscal impact analysis, will support the food services department in creating their implementation plan.

This calculator will assist you in analyzing the feasibility of expansion for your district. You can build “what if?” scenarios for your district by setting up presumptions of participation based on the planned breakfast models at each of the schools in your district. The calculator will then extrapolate the revenue and expense for you.

The impact that breakfast expansion will have on your current labor model will vary depending upon your current operational model, the breakfast service model selected, bell schedules, service hours, and historical labor assignments at the sites. Our Meals Per Labor Hour Worksheet is a useful tool for understanding your labor baseline.

This is an excellent example of how a school principal communicated with her school team about how the classroom breakfast launch would be handled with regard to the morning routine. Use this to inspire your own plan.

Divided into four clear sections--Administrators, Teachers, School Dining Managers, and School Dining Support Staff--this guide has communication templates, glossaries, and step-by-step methods for successful classroom implementation.

A study using a sample of San Diego Unified elementary students receiving universal classroom breakfast to determine impact on academic performance. Study was funded with support from the Spencer Foundation.

This report examines the performance of school breakfast programs in 63 large urban and suburban school districts during the 2012–2013 school year, with the goal of monitoring their progress of increasing school breakfast participation among low-income students.

This toolkit is designed for stakeholders who would like their students to start the day with a healthy breakfast by implementing alternative serving models. Appropriate for principals and food service directors there is information to help enlist key decision makers in supporting alternative breakfast expansion. The toolkit also showcases breakfast delivery models from around Maryland.

One of the few studies performed specifically on the high school age group, this report reviews the breakfast habits and potential changes in Milwaukee. Note: The date of the report may relay meal regulations that are now out of date, but the study is still pertinent with regard to managing high school breakfast programs.

Developing standard operating procedures for your breakfast program is essential. Depending on the model used at different school buildings, you may need to edit your SOPs accordingly. This example, from Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, is editable and can be adapted for use in any school.